WATCH: Michael Moore, Naomi Klein and Others on What’s Next for OWS WATCH: Michael Moore, Naomi Klein and Others on What’s Next for OWS
Occupy Everywhere: On the New Politics and Possibilities of the Movement Against Corporate Power, featuring Michael Moore, Naomi Klein, William Greider, Rinku Sen, Patrick Bruner a...
Nov 9, 2011 / The Nation
Katrina vanden Heuvel: What Is the Media’s Responsibility? Katrina vanden Heuvel: What Is the Media’s Responsibility?
The mainstream media is falling victim to a cult of balance—and it's time for progressives to fight back by more effectively leveraging their message.
Nov 9, 2011 / C-SPAN
A Cat’s Life: Mr. Mick, 1994-2011 A Cat’s Life: Mr. Mick, 1994-2011
Not a lot of people know this, but Mr. Mick, The Nation’s dearly departed office cat, invented lolcat—that curiously cute feline patois that became an Internet craze.&n…
Nov 9, 2011 / Photo Essay / The Nation
Human Rights Experts Condemn Chinese Repression of Tibetan Buddhists Human Rights Experts Condemn Chinese Repression of Tibetan Buddhists
China usually manages to quash UN calls for action on its human rights violations. Not this time.
Nov 9, 2011 / Barbara Crossette
Voting Rights Restored in Maine, Restricted in Mississippi Voting Rights Restored in Maine, Restricted in Mississippi
Maine votes to reinstate election-day voter registration while Mississippi votes to mandate government-issued IDs in order to cast a ballot.
Nov 9, 2011 / Ari Berman
Field Notes From the Revolution: Activists Occupy California’s Imperial Valley Field Notes From the Revolution: Activists Occupy California’s Imperial Valley
I thought I might find a simple meme of the Wall Street protest. What I discovered was a desert flower brought to blossom by an activist tradition, coalition-building and old-fashi...
Nov 9, 2011 / Mike Davis
Labor Rights, Abortion Rights, Immigrant Rights, Voting Rights Prevail Labor Rights, Abortion Rights, Immigrant Rights, Voting Rights Prevail
In a rebuff to GOP extremism, voters reject Mississippi’s personhood amendment and Ohio’s attack on labor rights.
Nov 9, 2011 / John Nichols
Night Thoughts of a Baffled Humanist Night Thoughts of a Baffled Humanist
Punitive yet salvific, austerity is the ideology of a country that has turned against its own culture.
Nov 9, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Marilynne Robinson
slow poem slow poem
slow things heard in old songs sad songs sung by the sides of old inns dry roses clutched by a lover a wedding dress downriver you will ask them their names the women who remember will ask you in turn where you come from inside this small country you are writing a book it’s unfinished the evening enfolding you slowly a soreness in the fingers who are you they ask you will get in the car with the mirror with the silver flaking in the back the book will receive much criticism you knew it from the story the bride gone downriver where dusk pulls the sunset quarter after quarter so many have written they will ask you with roses will ask what to call you by the river where you come.
Nov 9, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Rodney Koeneke
Times Squared Times Squared
Jem Cohen’s Newsreel No. 1, Aki Kaurismäki’s Le Havre, Andrew Niccol’s In Time
Nov 9, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans